A look at Bing Maps powered by Nokia.
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Nokia has a new mapping partner in Amazon, a new report claims.
The companies recently inked a deal that will see Nokia power the built-in mapping services in the Amazon Kindle Fire 2, Reuters is reporting today, citing sources. The move is seen as a snub to Google, which powers the Android platform likely to be running on the next Kindle Fire. Google's mapping service comes built-in with Android.
The Google snub, if true, is the second the search giant has faced this year. Apple announced at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June that it was removing Google Maps as its operating system's built-in mapping application, and replacing it with its own Maps service. Google Maps had previously been available in the first five versions of iOS.
Nokia Maps has been growing quite rapidly lately, thanks to help from Microsoft. The company's services will power the mapping in Windows Phone 8, and also offers live traffic and geocoding to Bing.
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